Amos,

I had wanted to bring up Wittgenstein and the inherent meaninglessness of language in our thread on Atheism, but you are there--I must say I enjoy your comments immensely--

Donuel,

Talk about shock art! I'll bet this stuff is not well received by a lot of the more conventional minds in the violin making or violin playing segments of society--

Shambles,

I think that music has been marginalized by technology--In the 1890's, when phonographs and movies were novelties, there were literally thousands of theaters where singers, musicians, and entertainers of every kind performed, nearly every public place, from hotels to restaurants, to barrooms, employed musicians to provide ambience, background music, and music for dancing--A little bit at a time, this stuff has been replaced with recorded music--even in the fifties and sixties, there was a lot of paying work for small bands and even folk groups--